Paper holder and cutter



(No Model.)

E; J. GIL-LESPIE PAPER HOLDER AND'UUTTER.

No. 491,883. Patented Feb 14,1893.

Witnesses:

. 'waw-Umm wAsN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVANDER J. GILLESPIE, OF SAN J OS, CALIFORNIA.

PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491383', dated February 14, 1893.

Application filed August 16, 1892.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVANDER J. GILLESPIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Jos, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Holders and Cutters; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinventin, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the acconpanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speoification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front view of the device supported under a counter and Fig. 2 is an end View of same.

My invention relates to an improvement in roll paper holding and cutting machines.

The object of my invention is, first, to providea cutter that is especially adapted to hang on or be Suspended under the counter, table or desk; second, to combine Simplicity with eftectiveness in Construction and operation. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the acsompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents an end View and Fig. 2 a front View.

Similar letters referto similar partsthroughout the two Views. v

A, A, is a section of the table, desk, or counter, under and to which the cutter is fastened.

B are screw eyes or hooks secured in the underside of the counter, table, or desk, to which the cutter is hung or Suspended by means of the slot D in the upper end of the Serial No. 443,l95. (No model.)

knife hearing arms C, C. The lower ends of these arms are united by the knit'e E with the pivots F. I

G is the inverted base of a square sti'rup, that spans and holds in its pendent ends the roll or paper, the journal P of the spindle R resting in the slot M; The stirrup is loosely Suspended between the knife hearing arms, the pivots N being through the pendent sides of the stirrup, near the inverted base Gr, and through the arms near the slot D, between the slot and the knife, insuring the tension of the knife on the roll.

T is a brace, from the table to the lower ends of the stirrup securing the roll from osi cillation and holding it firmly against the knife.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A hanging or Suspended roll paper holder and cutter, comprising tWo knife hearing arms, with slots at their upper ends by which they are easily att'ached to, or detached from, screw eyes or hooks secured to the under side of the table, desk,or counter, their lower ends joined by a knife, an inverted square stirrup, holding the roll in slots in its free ends, loosely pivoted between and to the knife hearing arms, securing the tension of the knite on the roll, a brace from the table to the lower ends of the stirrup, securing the roll firmly against the knife, all substantially as set for-th.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in pre sence of two witnesses.

*' EVANDER J. GILLESPIE.

Witnesses:

W. J. WHITE, F. WHITEstDE. 

